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Create EAN-13 using Console Application Template

  • Print EAN 13 bar code images with Text Only Interface
  • Author EAN 13 console application generator by using Visual Studio Console Application Template
  • Allow users to draw EAN 13 with only Keyboard input
  • Support Supplemental EAN 13+2 and EAN 13+5 barcode image generation
  • Image Formats including GIF, BMP, PNG, JPEG, and TIFF are supported
  • Completely integrate with Visual Studio Console Application Template
  • Support Visual Basic, Visual C#, and Visual Jscript
  • Reusable component that could be inherited from applications to application
  • Reliable component (since 2004) to create stable applications that generate EAN 13 bar code images

Visual Studio Console Application Template

Console Application Template is a Visual Studio Project Template. Console Application project template is used to creates console applications to be used via text-only computer interface. It draws the preliminary structure of the console application. With Console Application Template, Essential project reference and files are added to console applications automatically. It could also add the .NET EAN 13 Generator project reference to the console application. Thus, the complete .NET EAN 13 Generator functionality is inherited by the console application.

The Console Application retains all the functionality of .NET EAN 13 Generator. It supports image formats: GIF, BMP, PNG, JPEG, and BITMAP. It provides flexible barcode size options as well as barcode color options. The EAN 13 bar code image could be rotated to 0, 90, 180, or 270 degrees.

EAN 13

Background information

EAN-13 is a barcode symbology consisting of 13 digits which have 12 data and 1 check. Originally, it represented European Article Number, and now it is widely recognized as International Article Number. However, the abbreviation version EAN has been retained. The EAN-13 barcode is defined by the standards organization GS1. At the same time, the EAN-13 barcodes are utilized worldwide for representing products which are often sold at retail point of sale. All the numbers that are encoded in UPC and EAN barcodes are also recognized as Global Trade Item Numbers.

Composition

There are four major components which are GS1 Prefix, the company number, the item reference and the check digits that make up of the EAN-13.

GS1 Prefix

As for GS1 Prefix, it is significant to know when the EAN-13 symbol encodes a conversion of an ISBN, the GS1 Prefix will be either 978 or 979.

The Company Number

This component is necessary in that it can identify the language in which the publication was issued and managed by a transnational agency covering several countries, or it can help recognize the country where the legal deposits are made by a publisher registered with a national agency, and it is further subdivided any allocating sub blocks for publishers;.

The Item Reference

Identifying the publication from the same publisher makes it outstanding. Meanwhile, it should be utilized and allocated by the registered publisher so as to avoid creating gaps. Nevertheless, there are also times that registered books or serial never get published and sold.

Check digit

It is a single checksum digit which is calculated modulo 10, where the weights in the checksum calculation alternate 3 and 1. The EAN system will especially detect all single digit errors since the weights are relatively prime to 10

.NET EAN 13 Generator control

.NET EAN 13 Generator control is not only an EAN 13 bar code image Generator but also a building block for constructing classes and components in .NET Framework. .NET EAN 13 Generator control integrates well with Visual Studio Console Application Template. You can quickly add EAN 13 bar code Generator functionality to your Classes and Components. That is to say, you can quickly author your own classes and components that create EAN 13 bar code image with the help of .NET EAN 13 Generator control and Console Application Template.

The Classes and Components retain all the functionality of .NET EAN 13 Generator control. You can selectively define properties of the EAN 13 bar code generation according to the need of given task.

You can:
  • Chose the output image format, GIF, BMP, PNG, JPEG, and TIFF is supported
  • Rotate barcode image to 0, 90, 180, and 270 degrees
  • Set the color of barcode image as well as that of the image background
  • Adjust the widths and height of bar code images

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